HAVANA DOMESTIC SERVICE IN SPANISH 0230 GMT 14 OCTOBER 1964--F

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700050001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 14, 1964
• Content Type: TRANS

rulci LC /LN 1i,unterrevolutionaries-and U.S. soldiers from South Vietnam will-make
up a new repressive force called the "Joint Operations Command." This repressive??,,
force is commanded by a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel named Miller. Other U.S.
specialists in guerrilla tactics will work with him in these interventions.
The "Joint Operations Command," the new repressive group organized by the Yankee
interventionists in Venezuela, is made up of,Cuban mercenary worms. and U.S.
soldiers, who will carry out antiguerrilla operations.. It was announced, that these
Yankee interventionist commandos have orders not to. take prisoners and.-to mutilate
the bodies of (captives?) so that they will not be identified,.,
EL..POPULAR REPORTS EXECUTIONS BY DIGEPOL
Montevideo Correspondent's Dispatch in Spanish to PRENSA LATINA Havana 1730 GMT
(Text) Montevideo--The newspaper EL POPULAR, in a special article detelined Caracas,,
reports the execution of several political prisoners by DIGEPOL members in Venezuela.
The eommuniet newspaper states that the murder of the political prisoners took place.
in Cupria, Miranda State, and that their bodies were found later "with evident signs.
.that they were savagely tortured, before being murdered in a cowardly manner."'.
Sociologist Victor Soto Rojas and worker ^lrino'Barrios--distinguished members of tkie?
Leftist Revolutionary Moveraent (NIR)--wero among the murdered persons.
The daily says that the prisoners "we:e turned over by the sinister political
polico--the DIGEPOL--to Capt. Hector Pena Pena, the commander of the National Guard
Bolivar batallion, which operates in the eastern guerrilla zone. The paper adds that
the execution order carried out'by Captain'Pena Pena was issued by the Defense Ministry;
and the DIGEPOL thb.ough';Captain Vegas, a.DIGEPOL member.
According to EL POPULAR, the;.bodies of SotoRojas and Trino Barrios, riddled with
machinegun bullets, were found by relatives after a search of several jails in
Caracas and other cities..:
Then the newspaper states that the antiguerrilla operations of the Army, National
Guard, and the DIGEPOL "in several peasant areas are conducted with the advice of the
U.S. military mission in Venezuela and that in many cases the actions a t the
guerrillas and peasants are personally led by U.S.'military agents and CIA embers.".
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